January 17, 2011

Stopped by PG on Saturday to get a sneak peak of some of his NAHBBS bikes. Most were already off at paint, but he did have this nice 29'er in the stand.

The killer detail here is the twin internal cable routing. One for a hydro line and one for the rear derailleur cable and housing.

Exit of hydro hose on the TT and re-entry on the seatstay

Exit of rear der housing

Which just like the other side continues down the chainstay

Another nice detail, the stainless cutout of the seattube to allow for a tighter wheelbase.

Non-drive dropout

This was another project that he was working on, the first Peacock Groove to have a carbon rear end.
After checking my photos, I realized it looks like this bike will have an internal headset as well, but he didn't mention it while showing me the frame.

The BB cluster where the carbon will plug in

Random Shop Images

mitering a tube

frame awaiting a seattube

robocop

The Nuge, RIP

Also of note was the fact that Appleman cycles has moved into the space since I was last there

hopefully I'll get a chance to shoot some of his bikes and get the lowdown on who I imagine to be the only custom carbon fibre builder in the Twin Cities

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Jeff

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It was cool to meet you on Saturday, however briefly. Eric's place is pretty damn inspiring -- I was there to talk about Minnecycle plans for 2011 and was fortunate enough to mooch some mill time off of him.